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We’re going to PAX East - come and say hello!

2013March 19th

We’ve been packing the world of Tearaway into suitcases to bring its papery landscape to Boston for PAX East this coming weekend. If you’re going to the show, come and find us at our little papery booth, and we’ll reward you with treasures!

We’ll have a selection of buttons and shirts and papercraft things for people to collect by completing some *very* simple challenges. Tearaway won’t be playable, but you’ll get a chance to meet the team behind the game, encumber yourselves with treasures, and see the Tearaway papercraft concept art. So come along and say hi! Our booth number is 1193.

For those who cannot make the show, fear not, there will be plenty of chances throughout the year to meet us and win our treasures, at shows and via the internets! Stay tuned post pax for news on some new contests!

We need a: UI Designer!

2013March 19th

Media Molecule is looking for an incredible UI designer to help us make more amazing games!

This is a senior role, working across different projects on different platforms you will be responsible for promoting a human centred design approach throughout all aspects of Media Molecule’s prodigious output. Although primarily focussed on game UI, expect to get involved in all aspects of the creative process from pitching through to tools development and games design.

As a passionate but pragmatic advocate of all things UX you will be able to suggest and deliver solutions that will make our games better. This will involve being thoughtful, flexible and able to collaborate in a small, tightly knit and ambitious team. You are an engaging talker, designer and presenter who will be able to nurture the fleck of an idea, getting buy in from your peers and then developing it into something that might just revolutionise the world of games.

Little Miss Geek ICT School Takeover

2013March 13th

“What I think an IT person looks like”, by Lila aged 10

On Friday 8th March 2013 (International Women’s Day), three very excited ladies from Media Molecule attended the Little Miss Geek ICT School Takeover Event held at Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School and St. Saviour’s & St. Olave’s in London. The purpose of the day was to inspire and provide an insight to girls in year seven about what it’s like to work in technology.

But what is Little Miss Geek I hear you shout?

Little Miss Geek is a non-profit, social arm of Lady Geek founded by Belinda Parmar.

“The aim is to do for the tech industry what Jamie Oliver did for school dinners; to cause a nationwide change from the ground up.”

The problem we have is that the technology industry is suffering from a gender imbalance at the moment and the numbers of women involved are declining every year.

At Media Molecule 22% of the workforce is female, 12% of which work hands-on with the games it makes which is actually a higher number than other development studios have. Little Miss Geek has provided some scary but true facts about the technology industry:

“Women only make up 17% of the UK’s tech workforce and this has been falling by 0.5% each year = we need to encourage more women to want to work in the tech industry.

There was only 1 girl for every 11 boys in the average UK A-Level computing class in 2011. Girls account for 56% of high education applicants but only make up 14% of Computer Science and I.T. subjects = we need to excite girls to want to study computing, so they are more knowledgeable about tech.”

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We need a Papercraft Engineer

2013February 26th

At Media Molecule, we’re hard at work bringing the papery world of Tearaway into people’s homes, not only on the PlayStation Vita, but also through papercraft! As you explore the game world, you will unlock a treasure trove of different papercraft plans for you to print and build. We’re looking for someone to join us for six months, and help us bring the papercraft world in to the real world, ensuring that our papercraft is just as fun for players to make, as the game is to play.

Who are you?

As a Wizard of Papercraft, you will naturally be a lover of all things Paper. There’s nothing you enjoy more than spending the day with your head buried in a box of card and paper scraps, or cutting, folding, and gluing a sheet of plain A4 paper into anything you can think of; from a paper plane, to a pop-up fire breathing T-Rex, which wags its tail when you pull its little finger.

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Previously unseen parts of Tearaway on GT.TV

2013February 25th

In the latest episode of GT.TV, Geoff Keighley talks to our resident bearded doodler Rex about a previously unseen area of Sogport - The Lab.

The Lab is an area which explores the physicality of music and paper, and all the platformy fun those things can provide. I’ll let Rex explain, check it out below (skip past Spock to the 15m mark)

P.S It’s okay to admit it was that edgy, suggestive headline that brought you here, you naughty people.

Our Dream

2013February 21st

On Wednesday we had the exciting opportunity to put Alex up on stage at the Playstation 4 event, to show you what our second team has been fiddling about with for the last while. If you missed it then be sure to check out the live stream of the event, or just watch our part below…

We’re very excited about the work we’re doing, and we can’t wait to be able to talk about the actual project, let alone for people to get their hands on it and start recording & sharing their dreams!

We had a lot of fun pulling together our R&D presentation, and so I thought it would be fun to share some of the behind the scenes moments which show just how we put this all together. We’ll be sharing more of these with you in the coming weeks, there were some very funny moments!

Come and work for us!

ALSO, we are missing some vital Molecules here at Mm, people we need to help us advance our new experiment. If what you have seen turns you on, then please get in touch!  See our jobs page for more details.

We’re sure everyone has a load questions for us, and we’ll really enjoy revealing more about our dream for you throughout this year :)

Lots of love,
Siobhan, Mark, Alex, Dave, Kareem and everyone else at Mm :)

Tearaway Wendigo Winners!

2013February 15th

We’re a bit sleepy today, because we stayed up all night umming, ahhing and generally struggling to pick winners to our wendigo mask contest. Finally, after an intense session balancing the merits of each entry, we’ve settled on some winners.

The only way we could settle on those winners though, was to double the number of them from three to six, and make sure we had a good spread of incredible mask creations, and our favourite photographic scenes.

Before we get to naming the winners though, we’d like to thank everyone who entered: Thank you guys, we loved your masks, and we’ve printed them out to put on the wall!
As a little thank you for helping us decorate, we will send an A3 professionally printed tearaway papercraft elk plan to everyone who entered, and we might even get Rex to sign them.

NOW. The Winners. Each of these winners will receive a signed framed doodle by Rex.

Winner: @Lilliflora

Winner: @mabxtery

Winner: @doseiengine

Winner: @Imputed714

Winner: @sybanee

Winner: @childp_child

Honourable Mention

Not a winner per se, but the first ever Tearaway Cosplay by @stuffstuffthing cannot go unnoticed! We’ll send you a small cool thing, once we can work out what that might be!

We will contact everyone, starting with the winners, via Twitter DMS. So make sure you’re following @tearawaygame if you want to hear from us!
If you haven’t heard from us in 7 days, then get in touch.

Look at all the amazing entries below, and thank you everyone who entered, you are all awesome. Another creative challenge awaits….

You should enter this Wendigo Mask Contest, you’d probably win it.

2013February 5th

So listen right, don’t tell anyone, but we’ve got a contest going on right now, and you could win big time just for glueing some paper together!

You might not have heard about it, because we were busy on a whirlwind press tour, sorry about that, but now we’re back we’re ready for some crafting!

So - Make a wendigo mask from our template, take a photo, and you could win some original, signed, framed artwork from the one and only Rex Crowle. It could look something like this, but a million times better, because this was just a really, really old drawing I found on Rex’s desk.